The Verge 2017 tech report card: Apple

If you only care about Apple’s products and not Apple as a corporate entity, I’m going to have to be the bearer of bad news: this year was the year it became impossible to disassociate tech products from the humans and corporate cultures from which they sprung.

It was the year the tech industry’s ugly side was exposed. As Wired’s Erin Griffith put it, it was the year tech workers became the world’s villain, not bankers. It was the year we expected big, important tech companies to be better, and in large part, they failed.

So it’s difficult to assign a grade to Apple, the world’s biggest and most important tech company, without looking at the company holistically. The good news is that Apple stepped up its product game in 2017. Even…